East & Horn Africa

Big populations are increasingly difficult to manage in the face of unemployment and unpredictable droughts, leaders in Uganda have suggested. Ugandans are being advised to have smaller families to raise the quality of life for their children.

After watching her husband die and enduring the horror of being raped together with her 12 year old daughter by more than 10 Congolese militias, a woman now has the tough task of single-handedly raising six children in a refugee camp in Uganda.

Castel Winery will soon begin exporting bottled wine from its Ethiopian vineyards, making the French owned company the first to invest in wine production in the country, The Africa Report learnt on Wednesday.